Describing nine of the forty-five autists with whom she has worked, Karen Zelan, a former associate of Bruno Bettelheim and co-author of his book on reading, documents how psycho-therapy helps autistic youth overcome their problems in socializing, com-municating, playing, feeling, thinking, and in fostering personal relationships with people. Her stories resonate with what the parents and teachers of autistic children have felt, thought, and tried to do with the children in their care.